As RJS (at Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog) continues his discussion of Francis Collins’ The Language of God, he brings up what is the crux of the matter for many Christians: the relationship of “Adam and Eve” to the theological appropriation of those stories in the New Testament. I had a chance over the past [...]

I can’t imagine how anyone can fall for these phishing scams, but pretty much every day there are people who find their way to my blog through keyword searches related to them. On the one hand, I’m glad that they are at least looking for further information. On the other hand, one shouldn’t need to [...]

I just came across a site that offers a number of Mandaean, Manicaean, other Iranian, Early Church and Jewish Pseudepigraphal texts in English translation. I’ve also added a link to my sidebar. Here’s the address: http://fam-faerch.dk/pseudigrapher/ Last week was our Spring Break, and I still can’t believe that I managed to finish off most of [...]

“Sethian or Classic Gnosticism developed as a result of the efforts of educated Jews interested in making sense of their traditions. They did this, not by rejecting their traditions wholesale, but by applying to them a new hermeneutic, whereby their ancestral traditions were given a radically new meaning. The result was, in effect, the creation [...]

Tonight’s episode had some “wow” moments, mostly in the flashback/flashforward (it was a clever idea to have the two running in parallel simultaneously) and in the events on the ship. Finally, Michael’s presence on board is revealed to Sayid and Desmond. Where Walt is, we do not yet know. The discussion with Capt. Gault was [...]

“Unless we are actively looking or listening for something, there is a real and distinct possibility it will simply fail to reach our conscious awareness, at least not at the levels that are desired” (Richard G. Colling, Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator (Bourbonnais, IL: Browning, 2004).

Carmen Andres draws attention to the Biblical imagery in a Johnny Cash song used in the season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This is part of an ongoing series of blog entries about the show. The same Johnny Cash song will also be discussed in a paper at SBL. Mystical Seeker discusses intercessory [...]